Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.